Earth Day press coverage. It's been other worldly

The folks over at News Busters have compiled a list of memorable words from those who so love the earth that they have lost sight of what really matters. And of impartiality. And of reality.

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Says, Geoffrey Dickens: “So sacrosanct the liberal media believes its mission to be, that they haven't even bothered to hide their bias.”

How so?

CNN's environmental editor Barbara Pyle, as quoted in the July 1990 issue of American Spectator, actually bragged: “I do have an axe to grind...I want to be the little subversive person in television.”

Time magazine's science editor Charles Alexander, at a September 16, 1989 global warming conference, confessed: “I would freely admit on this issue we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy.”

Dickens says “advocacy has been on full display as reporters and anchors have gone overboard in scaring their audience about the perils of our effect on the Earth, from overpopulation to global warming.

Ah, the impartial, “objective” press. And if you buy that, we've got some carbon credits to sell you.

Do you ever wonder where these folks are coming from? What their motivating belief system is?

In an ad for its “Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge” issue that appeared in the April 27, 1992 Sports Illustrated, Time magazine again warned: “Nature has a cure for everything, except the spread of Western civilization.”

Yeah, cure us of “the spread of Western civilization.”

We know how horrendous that's been with its prosperity, scientific, medical and social advances. Who would want more of that?

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